Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4b4311cc777f382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 23:06:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: db1a4f8644782dad7ce545a830564e05 SHA-1: ca0746ddd57fb0db2c781f6249a5fbd684580c7a SHA-256: c4b4311cc777f382157d1703475a29087440178be39d8c5c0b98fa639e1af3b7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=patwari+syllabus+in+rajasthan PDF link annotation
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fa2e1143983fcc46f72226e5920781/sabulusugedenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/gakokodolinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122a656740ebeb5e3396c4d934c1f4b1/tubitesaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4784578d8---17889427204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7151667e4---36047057294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/33907809017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769ef08e7b0---7969843245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607177d5937be---rotuzefumogare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f2dd78b5ecf24391b7063648c6090d/wiboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401754a302---ropomusajajaxawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/3802171863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077982c9afdd---sufukoraluxiwuxopudujomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9158896f9f60b3c14fc21336d1a8ea90/72760775709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19925d0b18e472c8f167011269858f3/56795113530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e004723a6f329be0383d571153711a43/mikopamurarisigufuparasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/nosunewege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe50e414a36badf4b1a6f713d9d51357/15908714798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D1E 5184 bytes
SHA-256: ed41be77f0f3b83c4d709997755892d554db4fbebd5bd69ee41a640e15c66891
font_01_sfnt_off00014eca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ECA 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off00015a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A2E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: d00d35290b4c189756ea25a809b991655110422d50cbed3c56f02263557fa2b3
font_03_sfnt_off00017fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FB9 16620 bytes
SHA-256: cc9958dd8719fae21a7cdf1e4b0b6415df81003024bfccf7bcdfc5a06b52fd51